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Announcing Dagger & Shadow RPG

It’s a fantasy RPG, a game of urban adventures filled with thieves, dark sorcery, and sword-play. The game is heavily influenced by Fritz Leiber’s fantastic Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series, along with a whole other batch of fun fantasy novels featuring thieves, assassins, swordsmen, and dark alley adventure. Another big influence is the Thief video game series, long one of my favorites.

Dagger & Shadow will use a new system I’m working on for the game. In many ways, it’s my most “traditional” RPG design to-date. It has character classes, uses good ol’ fashioned dice, and doesn’t have an “end game” state.

The game’s cleverest feature is the dice and action mechanics. Players roll pools of d6s, adding the highest 2 for a target number. But, any 6s rolled amp up the action with something called Edges. These are specific moves and maneuvers players can mix and match, allowing their characters to create exciting combinations of action.